Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Emails

The guy who runs the "Iraq War Was Wrong" blog has apparently been emailing various pundits, and getting responses. His exchange with Jonah Goldberg is here; his exchange with Juan Cole is here; and his latest exchange with Paul Krugman is here and here.

No, the "logic" is not that two wrongs make a right. Not at all. My point is two-fold: (1) You can logically oppose harsh treatment across the board; you can logically support harsh treatment across the board; or you can even logically oppose harsh treatment for non-violent prisoners while being more forgiving as to the harsh treatment of potential terrorists. But it is morally incoherent and unserious to oppose harsh treatment as to potential terrorists while ignoring the treatment of non-violent prisoners. (2) In fact, we should oppose torture or needlessly harsh treatment anywhere it occurs, not just when one party finds that the issue is useful for attacking the other party.

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